1/2 Leeuwendaalder Lily

West Friesland's leeuwendaalder series was minted primarily for export, not domestic circulation. The Dutch East and West India Companies consumed these coins by the shipload — they were trusted trade currency across the Levant, the Baltic, and the Indonesian archipelago precisely because their silver content was consistent and their weight well-known to foreign merchants. The half denomination served smaller transactions in that same trade network.

The Delmonte reference places this among the scarcer provincial halves; West Friesland's output was never as voluminous as Holland or Zeeland, and the 1616–1649 span covers the full fury of the Thirty Years' War, during which Dutch mint production was periodically redirected to meet military subsidy obligations.